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- AlphaGo Zero threw away human games and got better
Starting from random play, with no human data, it beat the version that beat Lee Sedol 100 games to 0 after three days. Human knowledge was a ceiling.
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The world's top Go player lost 3-0 to AlphaGo in China this week, and Chinese viewers mostly couldn't watch it live. Why this match will matter more in China than the Lee Sedol one did.
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AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol four games to one. The move everyone is talking about, how the system found it, and why self-play is the part that matters.
2 min reads likes comments - Re-reading Society of Mind as an engineering manager
Marvin Minsky died this week, the same week DeepMind announced a Go program that beat a professional. Two very different ideas of how minds get built.
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